120 research outputs found
Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia
What characterises the development and social transformation of the military profession in Scandinavia? Has the broadening of tasks, function and scope of the military profession lead to changes in the values, outlook and behaviour of groups of the armed forces? And what kind of changes are the cultural and structural interpenetration of civilian and military spheres, including hybrid forms of professionalism, generating and what are the significance and implications of such changes?;Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia brings together a number of expert scholars within Military Studies and related fields to provide timely and updated answers to these highly important questions – answers with potential implications far beyond the Scandinavian case
Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia
What characterises the development and social transformation of the military profession in Scandinavia? Has the broadening of tasks, function and scope of the military profession lead to changes in the values, outlook and behaviour of groups of the armed forces? And what kind of changes are the cultural and structural interpenetration of civilian and military spheres, including hybrid forms of professionalism, generating and what are the significance and implications of such changes?;Transformations of the Military Profession and Professionalism in Scandinavia brings together a number of expert scholars within Military Studies and related fields to provide timely and updated answers to these highly important questions – answers with potential implications far beyond the Scandinavian case
Management of Emotions in Accelerated Medical Relationships
This thesis is the result of an ethnographic fieldwork at a major university hospital in
Denmark that I undertook between June 2009 and January 2011. I was an ‘embedded’
observer in a cancer clinic and entirely dependent on the staff – administrative
and clinical – for access to facilities, people and diseases. That said, I was never
asked to modify my writings in any way or to show the content of my field notes or
tape recordings. Neither does the hospital have any formal share in the overall thesis.
The responsibility for the final outcome is on my shoulders alone. As an embedded
observer I was to handle personally sensitive data, such as specific details in patient
records, with confidentiality. There is no information in my writings which can be
traced – directly or indirectly – back to individual patients or relatives at the hospital
and hence disclose their identity. My observations lasted anywhere from 20 minutes
(the length of a typical staff meeting) to five working days in a row. During a day of
observation, I followed doctors from they arrived in the early mornings; when they
attended the morning conferences, until they left the hospital in the late afternoon after
hours of clinical work in the outpatient clinic. I also followed them in their offices
and in the operation theatres. Many tableaux from the thesis you are reading now
were recorded in my notebook and then reconstructed in the later writing. Wherever
possible, I have used my free access to the hospital to check the accuracy of my writing,
for example by procuring typical situations more than once or by going through
precarious details with involved staff members. Statements that appear in quotation
marks (‘…’) were recorded directly on my tape recorder or in my notebook while the
person was speaking, or immediately hereafter. Through the process I have shared
my ideas with the staff members involved to make sure that they understood the purpose
of my work and also in order for them to have a chance to feel comfortable with
my presence. Throughout the thesis, I have shortened quotes from documents and
interviews in order to make the text more readable. In addition to my fieldwork at the hospital, I have worked with the sociologist
Nanna Mik-Meyer. In her work, Mik-Meyer has focused on general practitioners
and their preoccupation with patients who attend the consultancy with medically
unexplained symptoms. Parts of the raw data material from some of her previous
studies became the basis of a co-authored article, which is included in this thesis. Utterances
from individuals described in this article are directly quoted from a larger
quantity of interviews with general practitioners in primary care medicine
’Dette er ikke et hospital’: Rum, følelser og professionel ekspertise/funktion i dansk kræftrehabilitering
Artiklen ser på fremvæksten i det danske sundhedsvæsen af specialdesignede organisationer, hvis primære formål er at rehabilitere mennesker med eller efter kræftsygdom.
Baseret på etnografisk-inspirerede feltstudier vises, at når professionelle rehabiliteringshjælpere er sat til at arbejde i potentielt mere humane og helende bygninger, i hvilke funktioner og adfærd ikke altid er fastlagt i overensstemmelse med gennemsigtige, formelle kalkuler eller professionelle rationaler, men i stedet er dannet efter nogle moralske antagelser om menneskelige behov og følelser i forsøg på at trække en klar demarkationslinje til den traditionelle behandlingsindustri – her tænkes først og fremmest på offentlige hospitaler og kræftafdelinger – har det en række konsekvenser for de professionelle rehabiliteringshjælpere; for måden, hvorpå disse tilgår deres funktioner samt indgår i relationer med hinanden og borgere, der kommer for at få hjælp.
‘This is not a hospital’: Space, emotion and professional expertise/function in Danish cancer rehabilitation.
The article looks into the growth of special designed organizations in the Danish health care sector, whose primary purpose is to rehabilitate people with or after cancer.
Based on ethnographic-inspired field studies it is shown, that when professional rehabilitation workers are put to work in potentially more humane and healing buildings, in which functions and behavior are not always determined in accordance with transparent, formal calculus, or pro-fessional rationales, but instead formed after some moral assumptions about human needs an
Management of Emotions in Accelerated Medical Relationships
This thesis is the result of an ethnographic fieldwork at a major university hospital in
Denmark that I undertook between June 2009 and January 2011. I was an ‘embedded’
observer in a cancer clinic and entirely dependent on the staff – administrative
and clinical – for access to facilities, people and diseases. That said, I was never
asked to modify my writings in any way or to show the content of my field notes or
tape recordings. Neither does the hospital have any formal share in the overall thesis.
The responsibility for the final outcome is on my shoulders alone. As an embedded
observer I was to handle personally sensitive data, such as specific details in patient
records, with confidentiality. There is no information in my writings which can be
traced – directly or indirectly – back to individual patients or relatives at the hospital
and hence disclose their identity. My observations lasted anywhere from 20 minutes
(the length of a typical staff meeting) to five working days in a row. During a day of
observation, I followed doctors from they arrived in the early mornings; when they
attended the morning conferences, until they left the hospital in the late afternoon after
hours of clinical work in the outpatient clinic. I also followed them in their offices
and in the operation theatres. Many tableaux from the thesis you are reading now
were recorded in my notebook and then reconstructed in the later writing. Wherever
possible, I have used my free access to the hospital to check the accuracy of my writing,
for example by procuring typical situations more than once or by going through
precarious details with involved staff members. Statements that appear in quotation
marks (‘…’) were recorded directly on my tape recorder or in my notebook while the
person was speaking, or immediately hereafter. Through the process I have shared
my ideas with the staff members involved to make sure that they understood the purpose
of my work and also in order for them to have a chance to feel comfortable with
my presence. Throughout the thesis, I have shortened quotes from documents and
interviews in order to make the text more readable. In addition to my fieldwork at the hospital, I have worked with the sociologist
Nanna Mik-Meyer. In her work, Mik-Meyer has focused on general practitioners
and their preoccupation with patients who attend the consultancy with medically
unexplained symptoms. Parts of the raw data material from some of her previous
studies became the basis of a co-authored article, which is included in this thesis. Utterances
from individuals described in this article are directly quoted from a larger
quantity of interviews with general practitioners in primary care medicine
The multiple strategies of an insect herbivore to overcome plant cyanogenic glucoside defence
Cyanogenic glucosides (CNglcs) are widespread plant defence compounds that release toxic hydrogen cyanide by plant β-glucosidase activity after tissue damage. Specialised insect herbivores have evolved counter strategies and some sequester CNglcs, but the underlying mechanisms to keep CNglcs intact during feeding and digestion are unknown. We show that CNglc-sequestering Zygaena filipendulae larvae combine behavioural, morphological, physiological and biochemical strategies at different time points during feeding and digestion to avoid toxic hydrolysis of the CNglcs present in their Lotus food plant, i.e. cyanogenesis. We found that a high feeding rate limits the time for plant β-glucosidases to hydrolyse CNglcs. Larvae performed leaf-snipping, a minimal disruptive feeding mode that prevents mixing of plant β-glucosidases and CNglcs. Saliva extracts did not inhibit plant cyanogenesis. However, a highly alkaline midgut lumen inhibited the activity of ingested plant β-glucosidases significantly. Moreover, insect β-glucosidases from the saliva and gut tissue did not hydrolyse the CNglcs present in Lotus. The strategies disclosed may also be used by other insect species to overcome CNglc-based plant defence and to sequester these compounds intact
Tid og Kræft
En introduktion til Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund nr. 20: Tid og Kræft
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